that's it for us live from kiev. thank you very much for watching. erin burnett starts now. putin tests an intercontinental ballistic missile. new details with the president's intense phone call with vladamir putin. we have a live report from the white house and crimea with the breaking news ahead. plus, president obama takes on the 1% again. but is wall street too much for the president to handle? and a witness breaks down on

the stand at the oscar pistorius murder trial. what she says she heard the night the blade runner killed his girlfriend. let's go "outfront." ♪ >> and good evening, everyone. i'm erin burnett. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world tonight. we begin out front with the breaking news. vladimir putin tests an intercontinental ballistic missile. american officials telling cnn the next couple days will be crucial for president vladamir putin, whether he will decide to move more troops into crimea and the ukraine. another huge day of fast moving developments in the crisis. all eyes on what the russian president is going to do. tensions rose today. russia fired that icbm. the launch happened just a couple hours ago. u.s. officials say they were aware it was going to happen. the missile test still rattled nerves though as russian

president vladimir putin left the door open to using military force in ukraine. the delicate situation summed up by a dramatic face-off today between ukrainian and russian soldiers outside a crimean air base. it was caught on camera as russian troops fire their weapons into the air. [ speaking foreign language ] kind of amazing it when you see that, it makes you realize how real it is.

u.s. secretary of state john kerry was in kiev today. he slammed vladimir putin for saying his government is trying to protect ethnic russians in crimea. >> they would have you believe that ethnic russians and russian bases are threatened. they'd have you believe that kiev is trying to destabilize crimea or that russian actions are legal or legitimate because crimean leaders invited intervention. and as everybody knows, the soldiers in crimea at the instruction of their government have stood their ground but never fired a shot. never issued one provocation. >> vladimir putin says he's acting on behalf of the will of the people. president obama says there's a strong belief russia has violated international law. there are serious questions on both sides though. at this hour we are learning new details about a tense phone call between president obama and president putin on saturday.

it was reportedly 90 minutes. jim acosta literally just walked out of a white house briefing. jim, what more have you found out ant that crucial call, which i think is fair to say went a pretty long time? >> reporter: it did, erin. it's not often we get a lot of details about a 90-minute phone call between the president and any leader of any country. we talked with some senior administration officials here at the white house about the situation in ukraine, and about that 90-minute phone call. according to the senior administration official, the president spent much of that time, and this goes to perhaps the whole reason why this crisis is unfolding, the president spent most of the time basically challenging putin on his facts that vladimir putin was basically saying that he's stepping in or that russia has a right to defend the interests of ethnic russians in ukraine. and that the president spent much of that the phone call basically disagreeing with vladimir putin. so i think that that goes to what we've been hearing over the

last several days from administration officials that there's just sort of a fundamental disagreement over the facts on the ground as they stand now in ukraine and why putin is doing what he's doing. what's interesting is that the senior administration official sort of challenged the notion that putin is acting unhinged or acting rir lags -- irrationally. they reiterated this to us that they believe he is acting consistently, that this has been going on since the invasion of georgia back in 2008 and that putin, according to administration officials, just feels threatened when there are popular uprisings against governments aligned with him. that was the motivating factor for what happened in crimea. and what may be happening in the rest of ukraine. and one thing we also picked up on during this meeting is that the president did speak with angela merkel, the german chancellor earlier today. she has been sort of acting as a go between between president

obama and president putin that this administration official said she has a long-standing history, the germans have a long-standing history with the russians. and that she was sort of laying out the contours of a potential framework of potential off-ramp is the term we've been hearing to get russia out of crimea. that is also something that came up during the phone conversation between the president and putin. the president talked about this potential off-ramp, bringing in international observers to take the place of russian soldiers and look out for the interests of ethnic russians. at this point, putin is not buying that as an off-ramp out of the crisis. >> thank you, jim acosta. just getting breefd by white house officials about that call. i want to go to crimea now, ben wedeman is following developments. amazing to see that footage of the standoff between the soldiers in the crimea. i think that image and seeing that said 1,000 words. what can you tell us tonight?

>> reporter: well, what this incident really underscores is how close you can come here in crimea with on the one hand, ukrainian forces holed up in their bases and with these so-called men in green, presumably russian forces surrounding them. they will haven't fired a shot that resulted in any bloodshed yet, but these shots fired today really set off alarms around the peninsula about how close it's coming to an actual sort of armed conflict in the case of this video that you ran earlier, the ukrainian soldiers were unarmed. there were about 250 perhaps 300 of them who walked to the positions of the men in green. and it's really become something of an online sensation.

ukrainian tv running it almost incessantly. the video being shared. certainly this is the first instance where we've seen the ukrainians, ukrainian forces in crimea sort of standing up in a sense to the russians. and i think it's galvanized the opinion of many of the ethnic ukrainians in the crimea that now is the time to make their presence felt rather than to stay holed up in their basis. erin? >> ben, thank you very much. democratic senator dick durbin is on the foreign relations committee out front tonight. senator, great to have you with us. obviously, this is front and center for the president of the united states right now as he's been meeting with people talking about this, saying the next few days will be crucial. if vladimir putin sends more troops into crimea and eastern ukraine, what will the united states do? >> there's a growing sense of resolve in europe and around the world against any aggression by putin in the crimea or beyond. and i think that it will be met

with negative reaction. certainly at the political level, but beyond that, it could include sanctions, as well. >> and what about the issue of sanctions? senator harry reid said he doesn't they that the united states should act alone basically saying if u.s. allies express any kind of hesitation, there would be a big problem. some people criticized him and said that was a weak thing to say. it's a fact of things to say, 13 of the top 15 buyers of russian oil and gas are europeans. are they on board? >> at this point the administration reached out to the leaders in europe. i met with the president and senator reid this afternoon. i know the conversations are under way. but they're waiting to see now what putin's press conference was all about. it appeared he hit the pause button. i don't want to overread what he had to say. i hope he is trying to take into consideration what happened to his stock market the first day

when he started this effort in crimea. and it was reduced by some 10% in value. i don't think that mr. putin likes to see that happen, nor does he want to see sanctions that would restrict the movement of people in russia. >> what about how putin's been justifying his actions. as you know, he's been saying the new government in ukraine came to power through a coup just last week. he has an interesting point here. here's vladimir putin today from that press conference you referenced. >> translator: the acting president, of course, is not legitimate. the legitimate president is only yanukovych. >> i mean senator, he has a point. yanukovych was elected. the u.s. has treated him as legitimate. joe biden's been meeting with him as early as 2009. he's spoken to him nine times in the past three months. he may not be a man anybody wants to be in power, but he is

the elected leader of that country. >> yanukovych wasn't removed by a mob. he was removed by parliament. the parliament met and made a decision, constitutional decision that there would be different leadership and an election, another election called. so i don't know that the specifics of ukrainian constitution or law, but this was not a mob coming in and forcing yanukovych out the backdoor. it was a decision made by the parliament in addition to several other decisions. >> crowds on the street went to his residence and forced him to flee. are we just having a semantics conversation? >> i don't think we are. there's no question there was political pressure but what i'm saying is, it isn't as if people with drawn guns walked through the front door and forced him out. it was done through the parliamentary process and through open voting. there's a call for an election soon. may 25th. and that's an indication in my mind that the parliament has said let the ukrainian people speak as to their leader. >> you met with the president today. there have been those who have

been critical how he's handled this so far. john mccain among them. here is that senator. >> this president does not understand vladimir putin. he does not understand his ambitions. he does not understand that vladimir putin is an old kgb colonel bent on restoration of the soviet of the russian empire. >> senator lindsey graham who obviously is often on these issues on the same page as john mccain tweeted putin came to the conclusion after benghazi, syria, egypt, everything obama has been engaged in, he's weak, indecisive leader. these are harsh words. do you think the president's messagetology putin has been strong enough when he said there will be consequences? pretty vague but certainly include halting visas and doing sanctions. >> listen, my friends lindsey graham and john mccain have a point of view from the other side of the aisle.

it's usually critical of the president, not always but usually and they want him to be more forceful, more confrontational, more military options. frankly, we followed that course of action in iraq and afghanistan. we are now coming home from those wars and the notion of a new war is not exactly appealing to the american people. if we can achieve a containment of putin and reduce his aggression by concerted action with other european countries and sanctions, let's do it that way. i think that's better to bring more peace to this world and have fewer military confrontations. >> interesting point. very few americans would probably be willing to go to war to stop putin from getting back some of the iron curtain. thank you very much, senator. appreciate your time as always. next more breaking news coverage. an outfront investigation of how much a threat putin's forces are. plus, inside the mind of vladamir putin. john mccain implied he knew what was happening there. we're going to ask a man who has met putin more than a dozen times what putin is really thinking. and a witness breaks down at the oscar pistorius trial.

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more on our top breaking news story tonight in ukraine. tonight the americans and its allies are waiting for putin's next move. russian forces are tightening their hold on the crimean peninsula. american officials say that the next few days will be crucial. the question is, what will putin do and a big part of that answer is what the russian military really has. we wanted to find out. barbara starr took a look in this out front investigation. >> u.s. officials believe vladimir putin will decide in the next two to three days whether to send more troops and weapons into crimea and possibly into eastern ukraine. putin always the ex-kgb spy master is not showing his hand yet. >> translator: about the use of military, there is no need for this so far.

but there is such a possibility. >> reporter: but if russia were to expand operations, just how strong is its military? >> when people say russian military might today, what they're largely referring to is their army. their ground forces. this it is always historically and traditionally been the foundation for the russian military and continues to be so. >> russia has more than 770,000 troops. another 2 million in reserves. ukraine, 139,000 with just under 1 million in reserves. if russia continues its soviet era style of reliance on troops to hold territory, it's got more than double the number of armor vehicle as ukraine and artillery pieces which give russia the ability to fire at long ranges, also nearly twice as many as ukraine. even if russian troops just stay put in crimea and don't advance into eastern ukraine, they have a critical edge.

>> they know the territory. they know the air space and the waters around. that's a huge advantage for the russian military. >> reporter: the russians have also improved key capabilities since their 2008 military incursion into the republic of georgia when their troops had some trouble communicating. the former president of georgia told "outfront" he thinks a demonstration of force against moscow might be needed. >> putin will stop at the entrance of our capital not only by resistance of georgians but huge unit by, but george bush sent sixth fleet. >> so far the obama administration is ring on diplomacy to keep the russian military giant at bay. for "outfront," barbara starr. joining me now is the former nato supreme allied commander, general wesley clark. it's great to have you with us. i'm so glad you're here with me so we can look at the maps together. you're looking at the old iron curtain. u.s. officials are saying as

many as 6,000 troops in crimea that are russian. ukraines are saying up to 16,000. it's very unclear. the big question is, vladimir putin has a decision to make, all in or step it back. what's he going to do? >> he's going to play it long right now. he's got options. he's still playing those options out. on the diplomatic -- think of it as two different chess boards, one laid over the top of the other. on the top, there's the diplomatic piece. if the government in ukraine collapses, then president yanukovych comes back in with russia's support. if nato and the european union aren't unified, nothing happens. he holds on to what he has. below that is the military piece. he's got his military force anchored in crimea. he's got other forces available. he's using a certain amount of electronic warfare and information warfare and he's probably trying to undercut the morale, cohesion and loyalty of

the ukrainian military. you know, only 20 years ago, it was all one military. so a lot of the senior officers -- >> defections could be a very serious issue. >> a lot of the senior officers were educated in moscow. so they've got friends who are in the russian armed forces. they've got family that may live in moscow. so it's a very complicated situation. and he's probably playing two dimensions there. >> one thing i always think as a layperson is to try to put yourself in someone else's shoes. it's not easy to do in the case of vladamir putin. he's a strange guy. enigmatic guy. but the russian base in crimea. let's look at crimea itself. it's hugely strategically important. we talked about this last night. it's the only year round ice freeport russia has, which was once a great world power. if america had a base in a neighboring country that used to be part of the united states and there was a threat, the government in that country was toppled, wouldn't the united states be in there if that was

our only ice-free port? >> no, i don't think we invade that country like that, no. i think we use all the means of persuasion and we would be trying to charm them and offering them basing agreements. all that was done. this is entirely different. there was no reason for him to launch out with those forces. the idea that the russian citizens were in danger, that was a pretext. it was an excuse. >> right. >> this is in the military we call it a probing attack. >> but is it an invasion? "the l.a. times" reporting, john brennan said there's a treaty between ukraine and russia allowing 25,000 troops in crimea that are russian. by all measures, the amount is lower than that right now. maybe vladimir putin, is it possible he's got a legal argument to say i'm not invading, i'm within my limits? >> we've heard the argument that the government and -- >> is protecting people. >> that the government is not legitimate. we've heard the argument that russian individuals are in danger. vladimir putin himself hasn't

cited a treaty because there's another treaty from 1994 that guarantees the territorial sovereignty of ukraine between the united states, russia and ukraine, which is what they signed when they gave up their nuclear weapons. he's not going there. >> what about this issue, we also have a map here of the ethnic breakdown of ukraine which is important. just 20 years ago, this was part of russia. chernobyl is well within halfway across ukraine. but when you think about it this way, crimea is ethnically russian. there are some non but mostly that is what it is, vast majority. if the elected government in kiev is toppled by a coup and crimea would vote to be part of russia if given a chance, is there not a democratic argument to be made that they should be allowed to vote and be part of russia? >> the basic principle we've tried to enforce in europe since the second world war is stop changing borders. all through europe, people are mixed up. there are always minorities who

are in a different country. they own the property of their country. used to be part of another country and so -- >> you dealt with this in the balkans. >> you never get to the bottom of this if you do this. the point is, these people were guaranteed their democratic rights. they had the right to peacefully leave ukraine if they didn't want to be there. they chose to stay there and they knew they were part of ukraine and they vote in ukraine. so what's the problem? >> all right. thank you very much. i appreciate it. look, i tried to put on the putin foot. you answered it. thank you very much. appreciate it, general clark, still to come, more breaking news coverage of the conflict in ukraine. up next, a look inside it the mind of putin. you heard jim acosta reporting. the white house tonight is saying they do believe he knows exactly what's going on but he is being -- he's not unhinged and he's not acting irrationally. others say he's delusional and dangerous. plus, president obama plans to close the most hated loophole in america. at least on this program it is. but will wall street shut him down? [ male announcer ] this is the cat that drank the milk... [ meows ]

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>> putin's first impulse is to strike back and say i am here and you're going to have to deal with me. >> i think he loves to strut on the world stage. >> you probably have your own opinion who vladimir putin is, but it's probably based largely on the images we so often see, you know, well, killing a tiger, not wearing a shirt with a horse. rescuing 10,000-year-old urns from beneath the ocean. often, we show the pictures and we do it with a wink wink, nod nod smile and it's easy to forget that this guy is an incredibly powerful man that can wreak a lot of havoc. what makes putin tick? you've probably met him and talked to him more than anybody else in this country. >> well, i'm sure there are other people who met with him and talked to him more than i did. but what makes him tick is what he said publicly.

the collapse of the soviet union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century and then what follows from that is that putting together something that resembles the soviet union would be the greatest achievement of the 21st century. i tend to disagree but i think mr. putin's policy in the creation of what he calls the customs union in which ukraine was supposed to be dragged into the eurasian union that includes belarus, kazakhstan, armenia and possibly ukraine if ukraine agrees and it doesn't, that would be the soviet yawn union light or the russian empire light. this is a legacy. don't forget, putin is 62. he got all he could dream of.

he became the leader of the second nuclear power and the largest country on earth. he has more oil and gas in the ground in russia than the king saudi arabia. why do we get did the boy who has everything? an empire. >> what about the question you talk about him being 62 years old. when you see strong men around the world, when they hit a certain age, they start to look bizarrely young. i'm going to put him in that category. there's no wrinkles on his face. he does what he needs to do to look young and viral. why does he do this? all jokes aside. >> well, i think he believes that russia, a country where the average life expectancy for men is, drumbeat, 62, he needs to look young. so that he can get re-elected. and he already dropped more than a hint that he's running again in 2018. probably the majority of the population of russia support

this invasion of the crimea. and the crimea is a part of a different country of a neighboring country. and all this historic stuff about who it belonged to before is irrelevant to the fact that this is a violation of international law. and mr. putin is a lawyer by his training, not just the kgb officer. so he recognizes what he's doing, but as a kgb professional, as an intelligence professional that dealt with human assets, he took stock of people he's playing against. he took stock of barack obama, of angela merkel and said i can win against these people. i'm going to crab the crimea and possibly grab eastern ukraine. >> thank you very much. we appreciate it. fascinating there when you hear about the life expectancy. still to come, dramatic testimony during the so-called

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so today, he sent his 2015 budget to congress and the president said how he plans to do it. >> closing tax loopholes that right now only benefit the well off and the well connected. >> tax loopholes that only benefit the well off. now, we've heard this from president obama before. one loophole in particular concerns him called carried interest. he promised to close it in his first campaign. in fact, the idea of closing this loophole has appeared in the president's budget again and again and again. but it never makes it to the final draft. they're always willing to compromise and throw it out. those of you who regularly watch the program know how we feel about carried interest, one of the most ridiculous tax loopholes in the united states netting billions of dollars for a very, very select few of it gives loopholes a bad name and makes argument of the special treatment add up. let me explain how it works. let's just say a rich guy invests money with a private equity money manager and that

manager does a good job. so the rich guy's investment goes up by $5 million. that's a huge profit, right? well, the way it works is that the money manager gets a cut of that the profit. 20%. so in this case, his cut of the total profits is $1 million. now, the government wants to encourage people to invest in new businesses and private equity does that. so if you invest in new businesses via private equity, the government taxes your gain at a lower rate. 20%. the thing is, with this loophole, the money manager also gets to pay the lower rate on his cut of the profits. so he pays 20%. it's not his money he's putting at risk. it's other people's money. in this case, the rich investor. the bottom line, the money manager in this case would pay $200,000 in taxes. if he were paying the regular income rate since that he's paid to do every day, right, manage that money, he would be paying $400,000. that is a huge tax savings and means a bunch of billionaires

pay half the amount in taxes as the rest of us. specifically the billionaires that run the private equity firms. the one who's manage the money. guys like this guy. henry kravitz from kkr is worth $5 billion. his take home pay according to the "wall street journal" was $161.4 million. his actual salary was a meager $300,000. in carried interest alone though, his cut of other people's money, $43.3 million in one year. so while the $300,000 was taxed near 40% at the regular income rate, the $43 million was taxed at ding, ding, ding, 20%. how does this happen? there's one word. lobbyists. joining me now is congressman brad sherman. he sits on the house financial services committee. he's also a certified public accountant. so you can take issue with anything i described if you don't like it. let me ask you, you say lobbyists are to blame for this. the president said he was going to get rid of it in his

campaign. i hear democrats want to get rid of it. republicans now want to get rid of it. yet, every year they lose out to lobbyists. how come? >> well, i think the lobbyists for the carried interest exclusion are pretty successful. but there's also a certain inertia here in washington. we haven't plugged a tax loophole in 10, 15 years. there's also a wing of the republican party that is opposed to anything that increases taxes on anybody including any provision that just plugs a tax loophole that's being exploited. >> so what do the lobbyists do on that part on their side of things to keep winning this battle? i mean, what are the tactics they use? i see the press releases they put out. they say the private equity industry invests in new companies. that's true. but it doesn't solve the problem or have anything to do with this loophole. so what are the lobbyists doing to keep this loophole open?

>> well, they can -- first, they start with as a given a questionable proposition. that is money made by money should be taxed at a lower rate than money made through hard work. then they conflate the two and say the entire hedge fund is investing in business. therefore, not only those who invest in the hedge fund but those who manage the hedge fund should get the benefit. >> that's where you lose me. i don't understand why anybody who manages the money, that's their job every day. >> it is, indeed. and then they bank on the two very powerful things in this town, one is inertia and the tendency of us not to get things done and the other is an ideology in a big wing of the republican party, not dave camp who's chair of the ways and means committee. >> he wants to close it. >> yeah. he wants to close part of this. he wants to close about a third of it as much as obama. but there's a big chunk of the

republican party that if they said, that is an egregious tax loophole, they still wouldn't want to close it. >> i hear you on that. it's not just that wing of the republican party although you're right. the president is part of this. he's been beating his drum on this before he took office. i want to play for viewers the promise he made on the campaign trail back on september 18th, 2007. >> we will also turn the page on an approach that gives repeated tax cuts to the wealthiest 1% of americans even though they don't need them and did not ask for them. we've lost the balance between work and wealth. i will close the carried interest loophole. >> all right. that was 6 1/2 years ago, he hasn't done it. he puts it in his budget but he's willing to compromise and not close it every single year, too. that's guilty too, isn't it? >> well, there is no compromise in the sense there's no piece of legislation that has to pass. we have to keep the government open, compromises were made on that.

we have to pay our bills and avoid blowing the debt limit. we've made the compromises. the house of representatives has not passed a major piece of tax legislation. so it's not like the president gives in on this be provision and agrees to go with that provision. there's no provision. it's not -- if there's no deal, then the loophole remains. so the president has no pressure point. it's not like he can wake up and say, well, number one thing on my list is closing this. therefore it has to be closed. tax legislation has to start in the house. >> congressman, thank you very much. we appreciate you taking the time. now maybe how about back taxes? still to come, a look inside the courtroom during the blade runner trial. what made oscar pistorius' neighbor break out in tears on the stand? and jeanne moos has a very strange but compelling new workout later in the show. ♪ turn around ♪ every now and then i get a little bit tired ♪

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emotion dominating day two of the murder trial involving oscar pistorius. at times the testimony proved too much for the one-time athlete and a star witness. robyn curnow is out front in south africa.

>> it was awful. >> a key witness breaking down on the second day of oscar pistorius' murder trial. the olympic runner's neighbor testified she heard blood curdling screams the night reeva steenkamp was killed, followed by four gunshots. the defense tried to poke holes in the neighbor's story. >> just listen carefully to the question. the question was not that difficult. shall i repeat it again? please listen carefully. just listen to the question please. >> the defense went on to question the neighbor's credibility. >> you heard that out of a closed toilet and a half, 177 meters away? >> then in graphic detail, the defense explained steenkamp would not have been able to scream after the fourth and fatal shot. >> with the head shot, she would have dropped down immediately. when you say, when you talk

about the screaming, whatever interpretation, after the last, it cannot be. >> as i stated yesterday, i heard her voice just after the last shot faded away. >> the defense claiming the screams that night were from pistorious. they say high pitched yells occurred after he realized he had accidentally shot his girlfriend of three months and not the intruder. prosecutors allege allege pistorious killed his girlfriend in a fit of rage and called two more neighbors as witnesses to prove it. >> the intensity and the fear in her voice escalated. and it was clear that this person's life was in danger. >> pistorious appeared to cover his ears as a prosecutor describes how a bullet hits steenkamp in the head. outside the courtroom, steenkamp's mother told the "today" show she's prepared to forgive pistorious. >> it's actually important to forgive him for me because i

don't want to live with bitterness in my life. i just want the truth. we want the truth of what happened. only she and oscar were there. she's not here anymore. >> robyn curnow, cnn, pretoria. danny, compelling testimony from three witnesses. they all say they heard a woman's screams coming from the pistorius home. how does the defense explain that? >> well, what we're talking about here, erin is ear witnesses. there are a lot of different things that can affect ear witness testimony. they all are present here. you have a tremendous amount of distance, somewhere in the neighborhood if you can do the conversion and most of us can of about 200 yards. i had to look it up. you're also talking about sound traveling through a closed door, in an apartment, and allegedly coming all the way out some several hundred meters away in a different accent. remember the witness burger speaks another language, afrikans.

and all of those factors studies show can affect an ear witness's perception. the defense is exploiting that and they have to dispel that to the judge. no jury in this case. >> right. lit be a judge. i know the conviction is very high, around 80% in south africa. the witnesses, as you know, are all saying they heard a male and female voice, which would imply there was an altercation, a fight, and then saying they heard the woman's voice during the shots. here's the question -- the defense is saying oh, no, no, no, that was just a high-pitched pistorius, he was in such distress that his screams appeared to be of a woman. do they have any shot of that defense working? >> i think they might. certainly when you listen to the cross-examination, one of the things the defense brought out is the unlikeliness or the

uncertainty that she had about certain facts. of course, it's understandable. she's calling the police, as she said, i'm not paying attention to what i'm listening to while talking to the police. it's a chaotic situation. the defense attorney has to exploit that fact that there was stress, there was distance, and they aren't familiar with these people who are speaking so they would know who would have a high-pitched voice and who would not. again, these are all factors that affect ear witness testimony and the defense has begun to exploit it and done a pretty good job. >> danny, thank you very much. the other problem is, these things come to trial, this was a year ago that happened. how do you remember what you thought you remembered? still to come, meet the 6-month-old baby taking the video by storm with a workout video. jeanne moos reports.

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>> reporter: this tennessee baby's workout has over half a million reps on youtube. >> superman. raise your feet up. >> she does them all the time. you put her on the ground and she is up and then down and she's making the little sweet noises and we love it. >> reporter: michael stansbury and his wife have four kids but the youngest is burning up the internet with her exercise routine. call them push-ups or planks or yoga cobras. whatever you call them, she does eight of them. >> come on. get up. nice job. nice job. okay. yep. yep. oh, oh. do the swim. do the swim. >> reporter: staring into the ipad recording them. >> all right. oh! >> reporter: so dad can mimic his daughter. already fans raving about the results they have gotten from the workout. i lost ten pounds just watching this. >> i cannot verify that. >> reporter: if nothing else, this baby inspired workout will

strengthen your ah muscles. >> superman, superman, superman. on the ground. to the left. to the right. this way. i love you. >> reporter: followed by a touch and then, a tickle. can we see her biceps? does she have them? >> look at those things. >> reporter: with muscles like those at almost 7 months, next thing you know she'll be weightlifting. the workout is over in a mere minute and a half. never fear. coming soon, the lily ann workout two. >> this time, you know, it's going to be a little bit tougher. >> reporter: just think, a workout instructor before she's learned -- ♪ your abcs >> reporter: doing the locomotion with daddy. jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> my 3-month-old started on his back and ended up on his belly. he's got it.

thanks for watching. piers morgan is next. >> this is piers morgan live. you are looking live at kiev where shortly before dawn, a memorial to protesters gunned down there last month and there's word that they're trying to construct a so-called off ramp to get vladimir putin out of his crisis amid growing fears a tense situation will spin out of control after this confrontation in crimea. the world is watching two presidents locked in a war of words. who will blink first? >> translator: if i take the decision to use military force, it will be completely legitimate and correspond to the norms, international w.